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0. A. BROWNE. Glove or Mitten Thumb or Glove Finger.

No 240,958. Patented May 3,1881.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BROWNE, OF ABINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO HAWLEY, FOLSOM & MARTIN, OF BOSTON, AND EDGAR E. WILLEY, OF ABINGTON, MASS.

GLOVE OR MITTEN THUMB OR GLOVE-FINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,958, dated May 3, 1881. Application filed February 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. BRowNE, of Abington, of the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new 5 and useful Improvement in Glove or Mitten. Thumbs or Glove-Fingers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the followin g specification and represented in the accoiupanyin g drawings, of which Figures 1 and 2 denote the two separate halves or portionsofa glove or mitten thumb of my invention. Figs. 3 and 4 show them as having the exterior of each half or portion lapped on and stitched to the otherportion, in 15 order to have at the part of the thumb which when the glove or mitten is in use is most exposed to wear or to become worn, a double thickness of the material composing each half part or portion, Fig. 4: being a transverse sec- 20 tion taken through the two pieces or portions of the material.

In the said drawings, A and B are the said two pieces or portions, which, when sewed or seamed together at their contiguous edges, com- 25 prise the glove finger or thumb.v

In carrying out my intention I make each of such parts A B with anextension, 0, usually of a semicircular or semi-elliptical form, such extension being projected from theinner seam o edges of the parts. Preparatory to seaming or stitching together the said two parts A B at their edges such parts are to be arranged with the extension (J of each lapped upon the otherthat is, so that the extension 0 of the part A 5 shall lap on the part B and the extension 0 of the part B shall lap on the part A, all as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. This having been effected each extension is to be confined to the part on which it may so lap by being sewed 0 or stitched or otherwise duly fastened thereto, the stitching being shown at a, which is represented in a circular or elliptical path. The two pieces A B having been thus connected to their extensions are to be folded together along 5 the chord of the said extensions and afterward stitched togetherat their outer edges, the whole serving to form a glove or mitten thumb closed at one end and at its back and having a double thickness of material at theportion which covers the inner surface of the thumb of the hand 0 of a person when wearing the glove or mitten.

Heretofore it has been customary to re-enforce a glove or mitten-thumb by a separate piece of material lapped on each half part or piece and sewed to both. This I do notclaim. U My method of re-enforcing the glove or mitten thumb or the fingers of a glove differs materially therefrom, inasmuch as I use no single reenforce separate from each of the main parts or pieces of the thumb or finger, but have an extension from each part and generally in one and the same piece therewith or sewed thereto, and 1 lap such extension of either part on the other part and connect it thereto by stitching or other suitable means.

I am aware that it has been customary to make the back of the article of wearing-apparel termed drawers with two lapping flaps at the back, such drawers being open at top and bottom, all of which, though in some respects analogous to my invention, differs from it in others, as the glove-thumb is not open at its upper end nor-alongits back, butis there closed, whereby the reenforcing laps are not only supported in proper place on the finger or thumb, but serve with their stitching as stays to preventthe glove finger or thumb at its upper part, as well as where united to the body of the glove, from being torn open, as it is liable to be when made without such laps butwith asingle 8o seam along its inner face.

' I claim as a new or improved article of manufacture- A glove or mitten having the thumb portions re-enforced by means of extensions or 8 flaps G, projecting from the inner-seam edges of the thumb-body A B and lapped one upon the other and sewed together, the edges above and below said laps being sewed together to form and complete the inner seam, all sub- 0 stantially as described and shown and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES A. BBOVVNE.

Witnesses OHAs. H. ToWLE,

THOMAS W. WILLIAMS. 

